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ArticleThe ‘four nation’ thesis
… is one way in which one can conceptualise a post-apartheid South African nation and one which was adopted to varying … Congress . The National Party , in…
Biography of Lefifi Tladi by Paul Linck
… an artist, poet, and jazz singer that went into exile in South Africa because of apartheid. This is the biographical portion … what you produce as an artist…
The oldest forms of human communication
… taught, inaccurately, that Africans arrived in Southern Africa at more or less the same time as European settlers … most textbooks acknowledged that the…
ArticleThe formation of the SANNC/ANC
… in later years to struggle for freedom and justice in South Africa. Between 1908 and 1909, constitutional discussions … by the defeat of the Republics in the…
ArticleGrade 4 - Learning about local history through pictures: Cape Town
… Old Slave Lodge Museum, Groote Kerk (the oldest church in South Africa) and the Company Gardens. It has also been home to … Currently the event attracts…
ArticleCall for submissions: The Politics of Armed Struggle in Southern Africa Conference
… Conference: THE POLITICS OF ARMED STRUGGLE IN SOUTHERN AFRICA Conference Date: 23-25 November 2016 Venue: … apartheid took up arms to overthrow their…
ArticleANC Origins and Background
… grievances. This included black dissatisfaction with the South Africa Act of 1910 that established the Union of South Africa, their treatment after the South…
ArticleuMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Timeline 1961-1990
… jointly formed by leading members of the banned ANC and South African Communist Party (SACP) in 1961. The decision … series of sabotage campaigns across…
ArticleA History of Official Government HIV/AIDS Policy in South Africa
… Apartheid Government In 1982, the first case of AIDS in South Africa was reported in a homosexual man who contracted the … In fact, at the beginning of 2000…
ArticlePopular resistance and police brutality in democratic South Africa
… . The apartheid era ended in 1994, and people hoped that South Africa would not be the same anymore and that there would not … police. South Africa is seen…
The Soul Of The ANC Under Attack by Frank Chikane
… equitable economic and social order in a post-apartheid South Africa. Instead it benefits the few at the expense not … its revolutionary character during the…
ArticleCosatu timeline
… 2010 19 January: ( Congress of South African Trade Unions ) COSATU affiliate The Food and … be isolated from general advertising for the 2010 soccer World…
The armed struggle and state repression of the 1960s
… reaction to the Sharpeville Massacre from across the world as people saw how violent the South African government had become. Support for the struggle ……
Address at the AGM of the SADC Electoral Commissions Forum Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania 27 September, 1999
… those who determine what is good and bad in the modern world, and have the resources to award prizes to the … rights. We have 11 (eleven) official languages…
Article1967 Terrorism Act, No. 83 of 1967
… one the most important pieces of legislation passed by the South African apartheid regime. Though the Act’s stated … (Dugard, 1978, 155) In 1976, with the…
ArticleThe History of LGBT legislation
… and oppressive, these are words that were used to explain South Africa’s Apartheid regime, which officially lasted from … Africa's Constitution one of the…
ArticleThe South African War 1899-1902
… ultimatum to Britain and two days later, on 11 October the war was officially declared between Britain and the Boers. … Redvers Buller, who was the British…
State of the nation address by the President of South Africa, Nelson Mandela
… State of the nation address by the President of South Africa, Nelson Mandela Houses of Parliament, Cape Town, 24 … that we are Africans and that we are…
ArticleThe Interim South African Constitution 1993
… talks would take place on 29 and 30 November at the World Trade Centre in Kempton Park, east of Johannesburg, … On 20 December 1991, the Convention for a…
PlaceArthur Newton's- Rock Seat in the Comrades Marathon
… In addition, to Arthur Newton's many excursions around the World, he also won many other road races and set other, World … 1922, to publicize his outrage at…
ArticleNew identities and the construction of heritage
… basis for human rights protection and promotion around the world. In the same year that the UDHR was accepted at the UNO in 1948, the National Party came to…
ArticleThe Azania Liberation Support Committee and its publications
… and Azania Frontline as publications that were part of the South African liberation movement but independent of any … group. Azania Frontline: Newsletter of…
Biography of Abdullah Ibrahim by Chance Overby
… Image source Abdullah Ibrahim is a profoundly influential South African jazz musician who was frequently oppressed by the apartheid regime in South Africa…
ArticleAfrican Traditional Religion
… an important part of millions of people's lives across the world. Thousands of African people are converted to … us when we die?" for as long as they've been…
ArticleAzanian People’s Organization (AZAPO)
… related organisations was banned. Amongst these were the South African Students' Organisation (SASO), Black People's … the Freedom Charter, advocating for a…
ArticleStaffrider magazine (1978-1993)
… Introduction Staffrider was a South African literary and arts magazine published by Ravan … was definitely outside the bounds of institutional life in South…
ArticlePan Africanist Congress timeline 1959-2011
… since Poqo, the armed wing of the PAC, was established in South Africa to form cells and commence work towards the armed … headman in the Transkei is killed…
ArticleBritain takes control of the Cape
… Indigenous population With colonialism, which began in South Africa in 1652, came the Slavery and Forced Labour Model. … space between two groups of farmers…
Speaking Notes for the President of the African National Congress, President Jacob Zuma, during the MKMVA National Conference, 12 October 2012
… The nation and the progressive people all over the world are celebrating the centenary of the ANC as the oldest … two choices: submit or fight. That time has…
Zonal Centenary Memorial Lecture on the Life and Times of David Bopape, presented by David Makhura, ANC Gauteng Provincial Secretary, 21 June 2012, Tsakane
… farm workers. His father fought against Germany during World War I. His uncle, Filipus Bopape, gave testimony to the 1917 … into contact with the leaders of…